My interview on BBC Radio 4 Today
30 May 2011
The joy of the dining car and slow trains
On the Slow Train with BBC Radio Scotland
18 April 2011
More of my rail journeys through the UK
On the Slow Train with BBC Radio Manchester
18 April 2011
Chatting about my two years of train travel through Britain
On the Slow Train with BBC Radio Wales
18 April 2011
Radio interview about my two years of train travel round Britain
A poetic tribute to the Slow Train
22 March 2010
Philip Larkin reads his work The Whitsun Weddings, possibly the most evocative poem ever about a journey on a slow train, written in 1957. Larkin, reckoned by many to be Britain's greatest postwar poet, travelled on a train from Hull, where he was the university's chief librarian. The stops out of the Yorkshire city, as he travelled towards London on that sultry summer's afternoon, were Doncaster, Retford, Grantham, Newark and Peterborough. A perfect period piece... Recording, courtesy The Poetry Society Archive.